Losing democracy once can make it harder to restore it, even after a democratic government returns to power. University of Birmingham professor Nic Cheeseman analyzed three decades of data.

While US history is hardly free from political violence or maltreatment of disfavoured groups, this blitz on America’s citizens, institutions and — by many estimations — the constitution itself ranks ...

We provide the first global, long-run evidence on how war reshapes democratic institutions. Using data on all conflicts since ...

The trend of invading newsrooms, in violation of federal law, has now spread to the highest levels of the federal government ...

An organization that promotes democracy around the world reports representative government in further decline, threatened by disputed elections, fewer citizens voting, foreign interference, ...

Suella Braverman at the site of a former police station in Israel destroyed by Hamas during the Oct 7 attacks - Julian Simmonds for The Telegraph Suella Braverman has hit out at the Government for ...

Vaccines. Water fluoridation. Quarantines and isolation. These are critical public health strategies with a proven track record of preventing disease. In fact, they are recognized as effective, with ...

Fail to plan and you plan to fail, runs the old business adage, and it applies all too clearly to the Government’s ...

The European Union is supposed to be a success story when it comes to climate change. The 27-member bloc has reduced its emissions substantially over the last few decades, to the point that 2023’s ...

Billionaires assure everyone this is just correlation and not the thing they actually paid for.